Carlos Santana
Software Engineer at Canonical
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolCarlos Santana is a software engineer with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience bridging electrical engineering and developer tooling, currently improving the Ubuntu-on-WSL experience at Canonical. He brings hands-on systems skills in Go, C/C++, Dart/Flutter and test-driven development, along with deep Linux tooling fluency (Tmux, VIM, WSL) and a history of backend contributions to the widely used subiquity Ubuntu installer. Prior roles in locomotive field engineering and reliability taught him to lead distributed teams, manage warranty processes, and translate complex technical problems into practical, documented solutions. Fluent in English and an effective technical communicator, he combines lecture-ready presentation skills with a knack for clean documentation and reproducible workflows. Based in São Paulo, he balances engineering curiosity across software, physics and locomotives, often spotting cross-domain optimizations others overlook.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Projeto, Execução e Controle de Engenharia Elétrica, Engenharia Elétrica, MBA Projeto, Execução e Controle de Engenharia Elétrica, Engenharia Elétrica at IPOGSpecialization, Software Engineering, Specialization, Software Engineering at Universidade Estadual de CampinasEscola Cristã EvangélicaBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Maranhão
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (14)
installer10
python10
back-end-development10
installers10
ubuntu10
yaml9
qml6
charts6
clang-tidy6
qt6
boost6
continuous-integration6
dependency-injection6
msbuild6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/subiquity
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Ubuntu Server Installer, and backend for Ubuntu Desktop Installer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:118 reviews, 133 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily focused on improving the Ubuntu Server installer and backend for the Ubuntu Desktop Installer, making several changes to the locale controller. They added a prefill feature using YAML files and implemented server CLI options. Further improvements included fixing linting issues, moving logic to controllers and removing dead code.
ubuntu-coreubuntu-serverconsoleconfinstalleransible
CarlosNihelton/ubuntu-desktop-installer
Nov 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:192 pushes, 115 branches in 1 year 7 months
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